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I take them as the 'me' and the 'other me'. Sounds both simple and strange. However, we know that it is possible to get rid of the 'other me' (the devil in you), but once the 'me' has lost his head, by means of whatever, the 'other me' can't hardly exist any longer, it dies with you, it has to cos it is part of you. In this way I understand the intro. Both 'me's get separated and equipped with a different look and a different appearance to strengthen the fundamental differences in the characters, it's the battle of good vs evil - within. If not, well, then I take it as given and continue playing.

Far too high expectations at the outset of the game fed by a grandiose marketing of permanent medial misinformation (the AI is oldfashioned btw, etc., etc.) easily lead to disillusion, hopefully not to frustration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdb9RDZp7Go

Multiple Dragonborns, well, that makes perfectly sense. And the striking fus-do-rah shout turns into the well-known mua-ha-ha

Can't you smell it - the woolly trap? "...still able", with emphasis on an ambiguous "still".

Look at the big picture. With the first implementation of Steam Workshop into the CK (or the other way round) still open doors to third party data bases like the Nexus are easily to be shut in future updates. That'd mean the final end of a lot of beloved things. That it hasn't yet happened might be the result of the fear of the own courage and, the fear of the today customers that are still well aware of a free upload market.

The designers we employ are almost all over a personal "modding career". Actually this is one of required qualifications to get a job, for example as freelancer. Any idea what you'd play in the future without the young passionate folk that has tasted the freedom to present their innovative brainwork in a kind of public competition for free? Right - you'd play the same boring stuff from this day on. And the proud "everything belongs to me"- company goes bankrupt immediately, something that isn't very profitable. The key to success of a game company is finally given by the length of the leach on which the game community, thus the future employees as well, is kept in the past. It is a symbiosis based upon productive feedback. Nothing else matters. Those that disagree by means of whatever should play vanilla. In doing so I still wonder what they're doing here - on the wrong side of the show.

Much ado about nothing´. Kudos to ginnyfizz and those that aren't afraid by passion.

Oh, they have the right to state anything, even if it has to juridical impact at all. Or did you pay something to my company when publishing a new macro written in Microsoft Word without our explicit permission, hmm?

I see no good reason to have a word with a lover about logic. I'm outty!

Don't you read what I say? I've said that the new elves, don't call them Mer for this would automatically include the Orcs, aren't that new, they're just modern replicas of the old ones of 2002 from Morrowind. And already these vanilla figures of old didn't run that well, to say the least. I guess the fact that you like their look doesn''t change the impression of the vast majority of gamers: they don't look good enough to be playable as PC, they don't match the beauty ideal, if you prefer that. And we normally distinguish elves from humans by their ears and their body size and not by a hatched, not to say furrowed face. In the end it is just a question of identification with the figure: Do I want to play a lunger or not. My understanding of an elf is that he/she has to be twice as beautiful as his human counterpart ... and not twice as ugly.

It's the old Morrowind tree-bark look that has already scared off the gamers in 2002, till the coming of Rhedd's low polygon faces and the following triumph of the elves as player chars for the next 10 years. That triumph has ended now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1xH4YM7rb4

Your last sentence, Korak, doesn't answer ginny's objection. It just takes the given as given cos somebody has given it to us. Fact is - there is absolutely no logic in the way the player gets his goodies, except one - to get them all he has to be a friend of all factions in the game. And that's a striking structural weakness of the game.

Multiple choices within a complex, non-linear questline would presuppose intelligent thinking on our side. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the customers don't want to play a game that might cause headache. That leads to simple linear games with guided quests, even simpler puzzles and a low level AI that frees the player from any pain or sorrow in his spare time. Decision making remains the privilege of chess fans.

Take a look at "mood", "morality" and "aggression" of the forced followers in the Skyrim NPC editor and change the defaults if necessary. Keep in mind that their original AI script is broken anyway and no matter what you are expecting from the essential NPCs, take care of friendly fire. Moreover, in quests where the follower has to wait you have to disable the additional companion cos the "wait here" function doesn't work. Once the broken AI runs mad it makes no sense to use the console command "resurrect" within the running autosaved game sequence cos the AI is still aware of the actual relationship rank. To make it easy in case of trouble: delete the .esp file of the affected console follower...

For the time being you've to extract the yngolshelm folder from the meshes.bsa first. Use Timeslips's BSA Unpacker v.0.6.1.0 for the operation. Then you gotta delete the yngolshelmf_1.nif responsible for the “clipping error” on the female head. Finally, copy the male yngolshelm_1.nif and rename it to the female yngolshelmf_1.nif. That’s it. http://home.arcor.de/surenas/yngolshelm.png

Unfortunately, these kind of product lives and dies with a tool like the Creation Kit, customization is the true key to commercial success here. So it was already with Morrowind some ten years ago. But now you're dealing with ZeniMax Media Inc on the matter and not only with Bethesda Softworks. And that means short term money for the sellers and less if not almost nothing for the money on the trained customer side. Though vanilla gamers might see things totally different, no doubt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IsiOWHJdZw

The makers of NMM beta are indeed a credit to Timeslip the Great. Well done!

great tunes!

That doesn't deal with my statement but with your self-understanding. I've expected a little more than this. Nah, don't worry about it. As soon as you step into the next page here you'll start feeling better again.

We are there to bring freedom to the beleaguered people of the Middle East! Israel isn't our major ally in the ME but our nuclear protégé, a child we still have to feed with milk and that is sometimes nice, sometimes nasty, born out of a Christian remorse that is deeply rooted in the dark history of the last two millennia, a history we have to amend, apparently by instinct. And we always keep an eye on our children, protect them, defend them against all odds ... and love them above all, for good parents have to. We are humans, aren't we? What is freedom? The bee loves to be enslaved by her queen, the bear does not. Though both love honey. What is freedom for the one is slavery for the other, you see? It is just a matter of tradition, habit and expectation. And don't talk about Western understanding of freedom as the non plus ultra - don't even think of it. It is just one understanding among many, the understanding of a minority on this planet, a variant. The crusader mission has failed since long, we just have to accept the truth, to make peace with ourselves and our visionary claim to bring the unwanted to others and the wanted to us... by force. Have a nice time ^^

One has to know first what one is doing. This is not the case in the USA, otherwise we'd not see such masses of insolvent folk, eh? And be more careful what you are saying about me. Social compensation is not in your vocabulary, I see it. and not only this. Fortunately I'm rich enough to survive the upcoming US financial crisis in good health. Hope that goes for you and your brothers-in arms too.

With income tax... they know where you live, and can usually prove your status... not really the case with undocumented immigrants or even those unlicensed pharmacists. Today a great many working people in the West have an income below the state income tax assessment ceiling, not only the mentioned illegal immigrants and drug dealers that prefer face-to-face over documented communication. Thus income tax as perfect parameter of civic transparency doesn't work as good as it was still the case in the 70s and 80s. Life is getting harder for more and more people are getting insolvent and the heavily indebted middle class is threatened with extinction. We have to face a classical structural change, the social roll backwards to the two class societies of the poor and the rich with an upcoming strengthening of the political extremes by those who feel themselves as being permanently fooled by empty state slogans and one-sided economic programs for the few rich against the many poor and thus finally by the state as such. That is the moment when people are easily willing to give up their former individual freedom for the sake of a new collective security as the guarantor of individual survival, often under unfree conditions. Individual freedom alone simply doesn't feed the yaps at home. Modern policy thus always strives not to cross the critical point of safe return, to face more poor folk than the state system can live with. Now, when is one to be called poor in a world that is dedicated to permanent consumer needs? Exactly when one has to scoop the individual volume of card credit without ever being able to restore the zero line within a twelvemonth, when one has to live day by day at the edge of the own insolvency. One often overlooked aspect of individual freedom is to say "no" from time to time, to drill non-consumption when the old anted stuff still works fine and new bankrolled stuff is just a prestigious object to gain a temporary respect in the show-offy neighborhood or the buy-happy clique.